Re: backing up /etc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alvin Oga" <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>
To: "Shri Shrikumar" <shri@urbyte.com>
Cc: "debian users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: backing up /etc
>
> hi ya
>
> assuming oyu have a different disk mounted as /mnt/backup
> ( never backup important data to the same hard disk )
>
> #
> # backup of last 7 days
> #
> # adjust days to when the last time you did your manual backups
> #
> days=7
> ymd=(date +20%y.%m.%d)
> #
> mount /dev/hdxxxx /mnt/backup
> find /etc -mtime -$days -print |tar
zcvf/mnt/backup/etc.$ymd.$days.tgz -T -
> umount /mnt/backup
Thanks, that was certainly helpful.
On a sidenote, if a package installed new config files today and I
didn't touch them - would they still be backup up ? If so, is there any
way to stop them from being backup up. If not, is there any way to get
them to be backed up ? Just curious.
Regards,
Shri
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